Mughal+Empire

Cultural acheivments


 * 1) The fighting of cultures lead to the end of the Mughal empire
 * 2) Persians and Indians lived and worked together. The cultures eventually blended together to make the Mughal Empire
 * 3) Everything that the different cultures started out with started blending together to e everything better.
 * 4) The Mughal empire was famous for there monumental architecture. The Mughal made the Taj Mahal, a famous tomb
 * 5) Many of the things Mughal made are symbols in India today

Growth of the Empire [|Mughal Empire] Grew under tolerant religious policy/unified empire
 * The Mughals were from central Asia and were Turkish Muslims
 * The founder of the Empire was named Babur or "tiger"
 * He couldn't succeed in building an empire in central Asia, and so decided to make an empire in Northern India
 * The Mughal Empire was built and established in 1526
 * Under an Emperor with the name Akbar the empire grew
 * He had began a tolerant religious policy; he believed that no religion had all of the answers
 * He was excepting of Hindu's and rid the Empire of the tax on non-Muslims
 * In the 1600's the empire had grew so much that it controlled most of India
 * During that time the new emperor had changed the religious views and laws of the empire
 * There were strict religious laws and Hindu temples throughout India were destroyed
 * He brought back the tax and persecuted the non-Muslims
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">A religious group called the Sikhs Gathered to protest, but war elephants were sent to kill them
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">This arouse violent results
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">New non-tolerant religious policy leads to fall of empire
 * <span style="direction: ltr; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; vertical-align: middle;">In the late 1600's the Mughal empire fell apart

Leaders and their role in the expansion. Mughal Empire 11:00 AM **In the year 1526 the founder of the Mughal Empire is Babur, which means tiger, created this empire.** **The Empire grew in the 1500's ruled by the emperor Akbar. He conquered many new lands to make the government stronger. Shortly after he created a high tolerant religious policy. Akbar believed that no single religion had all the answers, including Islam.**

**Akbar's tolerant policies unified the empire.** **He got rid of tax on non-Muslims, and invited Hindus to join the Mughal empire. Thus proving that Akbar was a very responsible, and generous.** **In the 1600's the Mughal empire expanded to control almost all of India. As in the picture to the right.** **In the late 1600's a new emperor named Shah Jahan changed Akbar's tolerant policies, to much less tolerant policies.** **Shah Jahan forced people to obey strict religious laws and destroyed Hindu temples throughout India. As a result of the harsh policies, violent revolts occurred in much of the empire.** **View this link for time-line on Mughal empire, and all the important dates in the history of the empire. []**

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